Zhuge Oracle Lesson 220
Zhuge Oracle Lesson 220 “First bar and lock the door”: A small thing lost loses the great. Fear not the ten thousand times all goes well, but the one time it doesn't; a single spark, too, can set the plain ablaze.
From the complete 384-lesson Zhuge Shen Shu (Zhuge Oracle) system.
Oracle Text
First bar and lock the door,
then keep up your guard;
heed not the small things to beware,
and drifting on, they grow to great calamity.
Interpretation
A small thing lost loses the great. Fear not the ten thousand times all goes well, but the one time it doesn't; a single spark, too, can set the plain ablaze.